At this point the administration’s cybersecurity efforts are as delusional and straw-grasping as its global warming efforts. Though what’s sad is that unlike global warming, there actually is a kernel of truth there that we as a nation could be acting on, but Obama is distracting us with his attempts to expand government.

Meanwhile, you know who’s actually trying to solve problems, and probably has a decent shot of being Mitt Romney’s FCC chairman? Ajit Pai. It’s not just at RedState that he’s talking about the need to move toward IP transformation. He is all over doing outreach. And you know what? It’s true that wireless is important, and flexible, and useful. Wireless was my information lifeline when I lost power 25 hours thanks to Sandy.

It’s kinda too bad we didn’t just repeal the FCC when FDR wanted to. Amazing that even he saw that early that the FCC would have trouble with vague authority and needed Congressional tightening.

At what point does an app cross the line between adding functionality and altering the health of the network? we may find out with the tethering app dispute between FCC on one side, and Verizon and MetroPCS on the other side. I’m inclined against regulation here. Let competition fix it, if there’s an issue.

Google is in the business of gathering data and selling it to advertisers. And yet government is having to be told that, hang on: if they use Google, they may get their data mined. Duh? Obviously any government agency dealing with data that must be kept private, must not be using a service like one of Google’s public services. Google’s services trade privacy for other benefits. This is a known tradeoff.